The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1887-08-13
MINING SUMMARY.
News Of the Week from Various Die
tricts---0otes and Comment
AUTOMATIC sAMPLIN0.

Tue new machinery IN place at tn
Sampling works. The work is be
ing done under the superintendent
of Mr.. Mcmillan of Butte City, VIII
has been engaged for some week
past in the experimenting ofthe i'm
provements made at the Smeltin,
works of the p. 4 l. Company. Tn
sampling of ore will now be carried
on by automatic machinery and it j,
claimed the process will give better
satisfaction than the plan of hand
sampling. Automatic sampling wa.
introduced some time ago in Colo
RADIO but the machinery used anc
the process did not meet with the
most satisfactory results and the
old way was resOrted to. But during
the past two years, the inventive
genius of man has added SO greatly
to the old process of automatic
sampling that it is again coming
in favor. At Park City, it is in
successful operation, and the ma
chinery just erected in the Ketchum
works, combining all the latest
patents, is capable of doing even
better work than the mills at Park
City. Superintendent Swift, of the
Carrie Leonard mine, who is one of
the heaviest shippers to the works,
did not at first take kindly to the
automatic process, but a recent
visit to Utah, where he had full
opportunity to witness and COM
pare results, fully satisfied him
that the process was perfect.
EAST FORK MINES.
The Venus mine, on East Fork,
owned and being worked by V.
Domski, is making a very fine
showing. The ore extracted from
a tunnel being run shows an aver
age value of about $500 in silver
alone, and from eight to ten dollars
gold, and As per cent. in lead. The
mine was until recently leased, but
the leasers got discouraged after
working a short time, and threw up
the sponge.
The Silver Crown mine, immedi-
ate.y below the Venus, owned most
ly by Mrs. P. Schwartz, has been
leased to Messrs. Taylor, Stewart
& Cook, who are now at work. The
showing made on the Venus, and
the fact that the vein in that mine
pitches in the direction of, and lies
in close proximity to, the Silver
Crown side line, warrants the belief
that the leasers will make a strike
in a short time. They have all to
gain, and if hard work will bring
the ore in sight, they propose to
find it.
MINING NOTES.
The Viola company has pur.
chased the Viola Extension prop
erty at Nicholai thus preventing a
probable =" tie up" for some time.
The Nicholia people were consider
ably alarmed over the outlook and
now feel greatly relieved at the
happy result.
Atlanta is enjoying little boom.
The Buffalo company's mill and
mine and the Lucy Phillips prop
erty with several other claims
have been sold to an English COM
pany by V. S. Anderson. Mr.. Charles
Miller, one of the owners of the Ia
noma, has formed a new company
IF Baltimore capitalists which has
bought out the old company, and
ire now putting in new concentra-
tors. The mill is expected to start
up next week. A sale of the Last
Chance and Monarch company's
properties is also expected to soon
AXE place. Forty men are at work.
On the different mines, and it is
that under the new order
IF things this number will be great
y augmented.
Deadwood Basin, of which con-
siderable was said last year, is be-
ng prospected. A. J. Marston and
Harry Behr, of Boise, have returned
o that city bringing samples of
'ock which show gray copper, yell
ow chloride, black sulphurets,
,romide, horn and native silver.
The ore streak is twenty-eight inches
vide, and the samples were taken
,ut four feet from the surface. The
laim has been named "The Last
Pilgrim"
A forty-stamp mill is on the way
o Cariboo, to be erected on the
mining ground recently purchased
" st. Louis capitalists.
James Glendenning, prominent
mining man, of Salt Lake City, is
expected to arrive here in a day or
o on his way to Bonanza and
Rocky Bar, where he has large min
ng interests. He is also interested
n mines ON Boulder mountain and
smoky district.
Tom Popham returned on Tues
lay from a prospecting trip to the
smoky Bullion country, bringing
Jack several fine specimens of ore
ound by him, and returned the
ollowing day to his camp. Tom
s indefatigable in his work, and